SPORTS PEOPLE: AUTO RACING

SPORTS PEOPLE: AUTO RACING; Driver Jailed

Published: December 22, 1988

Randy Lanier, the 1986 Indianapolis 500 rookie of the year, was sentenced yesterday in Benton, Ill., to life in prison without possibility of parole for his part in a multimillion-dollar drug-smuggling operation.

A Federal jury convicted Lanier, 34 years old, of Davie, Fla., and two co-defendants Oct. 4 on charges of engaging in a continuing criminal enterprise and conspiring to distribute more than 1,000 pounds of marijuana between 1982 and 1986.